Open source collaborative text editors
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Open source collaborative text editors
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#2i feel like overleaf/sharelatex should be somewhere in this article
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#3i feel like overleaf/sharelatex should be somewhere in this article
I know the folks at Overleaf and they're awesome! However, their editor is not open source. But yes, ShareLaTex probably needs a spot on there, though I haven't looked at it in a long while and it seems to be pretty dormant in terms of development: https://github.com/sharelatex/sharelatex/graphs/contributors
Had no idea it had real-time collaboration... Wonder how it's done. Digging in now... :)
If you're using it, it would be great to get your thoughts on it and what particular things you like about it.
Update: ShareLaTeX uses a string-based collaboration algorithm (i.e. LaTeX is plain text, not a structured document format), and seems to be limited to max 2 collaborators (though that could be old info), so that explains why it didn't appear on my radar. I'll take it for a spin anyway, thanks!
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#4I love your description of "the dive". I am happy to see I am not the only one experiencing these recurring devouring interests that bring me much much deeper than I would like to go until I am starting to fork a github repo at 2am wondering "what the hell am I doing?"
And that article is tangentially related to a recurring interest of mine (shared editable 3d universe in which you can code collaboratively). If you happened to have an article comparing the merit of several server architectures/algorithms for collaborative text edition, I think many things can be related. I am now reading about CRDT (What the hell am I doing?) and that's something I may use to edit a scene graph collaboratively!
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#5I love your description of "the dive". I am happy to see I am not the only one experiencing these recurring devouring interests that bring me much much deeper than I would like to go until I am starting to fork a github repo at 2am wondering "what the hell am I doing?" And that article is tangentially related to a recurring interest of mine (shared editable 3d universe in which you can code collaboratively). If you h…
Hey thanks for that. :) Diving is super fun but also exceptionally exhausting. But often it's impossible to 'load' a complex problem in your head if you don't dive in for hours. Would be nice if there was a less stressful way.
In terms of editable 3d universes (whoah!), have you considered chucking together Three.js's JSON scene description (https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/wiki/JSON-Object-Scene-fo...) with https://github.com/automerge/automerge, a CRDT for JSON? What could possibly go wrong?!
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#6I would be very appreciative if Google made a stripped down version of Google Docs for plaintext editing.
There are a bunch of basic integration features that would also be fantastic, but if the product was literally just Google Docs, minus the WYSIWYG bits, and all plaintext w/ maybe some syntax highlighting thrown in, I'd be super happy.
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#7We went with CKEditor5 with a commonmark backend and I cannot recommend it more highly. commonmark data is converted upon initially opening and when closing the editor, allowing all native functionality to happen efficiently.
However I do note that we do not yet have a production ready backend for collaborative editing. I would suggest to use their service if possible, since we're developing an open source product it would not be an option for us.
There is a quite leaning curve when implementing new plugins due to the strict separation of model and data (commonmark in our case) and user-facing views.
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#8Etherpad (etherpad lite) has plugins for formatting https://static.etherpad.org/plugins.html
You can try a lot of them out in the demo online https://etherpad.org/
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#9I love your description of "the dive". I am happy to see I am not the only one experiencing these recurring devouring interests that bring me much much deeper than I would like to go until I am starting to fork a github repo at 2am wondering "what the hell am I doing?" And that article is tangentially related to a recurring interest of mine (shared editable 3d universe in which you can code collaboratively). If you h…
Hey thanks for that. :) Diving is super fun but also exceptionally exhausting. But often it's impossible to 'load' a complex problem in your head if you don't dive in for hours. Would be nice if there was a less stressful way. In terms of editable 3d universes (whoah!), have you considered chucking together Three.js's JSON scene description ( https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/wiki/JSON-Object-Scene-fo... ) with http…
ShareJS has a JSON editor example https://github.com/josephg/ShareJS/tree/master/examples/publ...
Re: Open source collaborative text editors
#10We went with CKEditor5 with a commonmark backend and I cannot recommend it more highly. commonmark data is converted upon initially opening and when closing the editor, allowing all native functionality to happen efficiently. However I do note that we do not yet have a production ready backend for collaborative editing. I would suggest to use their service if possible, since we're developing an open source product it…
CKEditor 5 looks amazing (from tech to docs), but that lack of an available backend is a bummer. Do you know if there's anything out there that would work as an initial/hacky/example backend? How do you plan to tackle this?